托福Tpo42听力原文

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托福tpo42听力原文Lecture 1

Lecture 1

Listen to part of a lecture in an art history class.

I am sure you've all been to museum, where you've seen beautiful white marble statues sculpted by the Greeks and Romans, or at least that you've seen photos of such statues, right?

We've come to expect these classical Greek and Roman statues to be monochrome, just one color, white skin, white hair, white eyes, white everything, the natural color of the marble they're carved from.

Now, the ideal of plain white sculpture goes back to 15th century Europe when Renaissance artists rediscovered ancient Greek and Roman culture.

They were inspired by sculptures that appeared monochrome so they created white marble statues.

The impact of these Renaissance statues, such as Michelangelo's David, gave rise to new standards for sculpture, standards that emphasized form rather than color.

But what if many of those ancient statues were originally polychrome, colored from head to toe?

Early in the 19th century, archeologists found traces of paint on ancient sculptures and since then, classical art historians have begun to realize that Greek and Roman marble sculptures were originally colored.

Even if an ancient marble statue doesn't have any visible traces of paint, that does not mean it was originally monochrome.

In many cases, the pigment would've simply deteriorated.

Ancient artists used mineral-based paints with organic binding media that would've disintegrated on its own overtime.

In other cases, the pigment may have been weathered away while exposed to the elements or someone may have rigorously cleaned the statues and unknowingly removed the last traces of pigment.

So, the fact is, we do have evidence of polychrome sculptures from Greece and Rome from the 7th century B.C.E. all the way through at least the third or fourth century C.E.

It's now generally accepted that most, maybe even all marble sculptures from that time period, receive some kind of surface treatment, like the application of pigments, colored stones or metals that would've modified their color.

So do we interpret the statue differently if we had known it had originally been polychrome?

I feel strongly when it comes to this.

A marble sculpture that had been colored has another layer of meaning that was meant to affect the viewer.

As art historians, we must try to interpret the intentions of the artists.

What were the artists trying to achieve?

Certain features of the sculpture were highlighted through color, were made to stand out.

In other words, they caused the viewer to focus on certain features.

And certain colors represented certain things to the ancient artists and cultures.

A color might symbolize heroism, divinity or youth.

One example to consider is the statue of Roman emperor Augustus.

This particular statue of Augustus that I am referring to was discovered just

outside of Rome in 1863 and was in terrific condition.

It's about 2 meters tall, just larger than life size.

It was made from an expensive high quality type of marble and was obviously carved by an expert.

Now, it still had visible traces of color on the hair, eyes and its clothing and armor. The paints have been very carefully studied.

And it turns out that the colors weren't just from any pigments.

They were from expensive pigments.

The use of these pigments showed the importance of Augustus and that he should be honored.

And let's consider the extensive traces of a red pigment that were found on the statue's cloak.

The cloak is a special garment that was traditionally worn by an emperor on the battlefield.

And in real life it was a red color, which to the Romans, signified the emperor's authority, military and political authority.

Ok, I won't point out any further details about the colors on the Augustus statue, because you can already begin to see that there was cultural importance associated with the colors, symbolism, which should help us understand the status better.

托福tpo42听力原文Conversation 2

Conversation 2

Listen to a conversation between a student and a university activities coordinator.

I understand your problem, but the upper level of the Student Center isn't available for the time being.

But my dance group has a performance coming up.

I've been talking with people all day long who are in the exact same situation.

There are at least a dozen dance and drama groups on campus, and they are all scrambling for rehearsal space right now.

But I made this reservation last June, before leaving for the summer.

No one said anything about construction.

That's because no one knew that the remodeling was gonna run over into the beginning of the school year.

The builders are just way behind schedule.

For a while, we weren't even sure that the dining hall on the lower level would be ready for the start of the semester.

So, it could've been a lot worse.

So when will...?

The whole upper level will be ready in six weeks.

The rehearsal rooms, the game room, the computer center.

Six weeks!

That's not gonna help me.

Our performance is in five weeks.

Are you part of the program they plan for parents' weekend?

Yeah, the thing is we are a tap dancing group, and we need to practice on hard floors, preferably wood.

We can practice on carpet at first, but it's important for us to be able to hear our feet hit the floor.

Interesting, uh, because of the rhythm, huh?

Yeah, because the taping becomes part of the music.

So the floors are very important.

Exactly, and just about everywhere on campushas carpeting.

Well, there's always the stage at the student theatre.

Though it's a long shot, we can look at the schedule.There might be some odd hours free.

What about in town? Do you think the university could help us rent a rehearsal space in a commercial dance studio in town, given the situation?

That's not really my call.

I can reserve rehearsal and performance spaces on campus for you, but off campus...

So who would I talk to?

The dance department?

Look, let's check the theatre schedule first.

托福口语模板:科技使人们更亲近吗

2015年最新托福口语题目：科技使人们更亲近吗

Some people believe technology has brought people closer and others believe that technology actually isolate people, which one do you agree with? Explain why.

托福口语范文：

2015年10月25日托福口语真题解析Task 2

I think modern technology has brought people closer than ever for the following reasons. Firstly, it completely changed the way people communicate. Take my family as an example, 20 years ago my aunt went to Japan to further her education and even though making phone calls was also an option, the only way she could communicate with her family was to write letters because the phone bills were way too expensive, and it would take 2 weeks for the letters to travel all the way to Beijing. It was slow and torturing. Now people no longer have to suffer from long distance, all we have to do is dial a number on our cellphones and in a few seconds we can hear the voice we want to hear. Plus, modern technology has made the earth a much smaller place than before. A few decades ago it was almost impossible to communicate with people from other countries, it used to take months for someone to travel to the US by sea. Now the internet connects almost everyone from every corner in the world and people can share all sorts of information on this platform.